Because a Mouse's safest domain is the basement….and the acoustics are better, too….

Little things – prayers and a creed to live by

I promised you a picture of the poppy wall art that Mom got from that Signature Homes party. We put it up in our dining room:

It’s pretty!

****

On a side note, despite outwardly having a good day yesterday – I was with family all day and we were all happy and harmonious, and I had a good guitar lesson – I felt really down yesterday. Well, I had a lot of thinking to do, and I’m still thinking, but it’s a little better now than it was yesterday.

Older Sister, Youngest Brother, and I stopped at the local mall after my guitar lesson and lunch yesterday. Youngest Brother has been looking for a particular video game, and the local mall has a Game Stop store in it, and he wanted to see if they had this game. So Older Sister and I were just browsing while he went to Game Stop. The two of us stopped in Bath & Body Works, and then we went to Victoria’s Secret….where, yes, I bought something, the first and only time I will ever buy something from Victoria’s Secret! (I bought a sleep shirt and lounge pants.)

Then we went to Claire’s. Claire’s is a jewelry and fashion accessory store; they always have the most interesting earrings, and it is where I got my ears pierced, twice. (Going against the whole fear-of-needles thing, I know, but I did it….took ten years between the first and second piercings, but I did it!)

I was actually looking for a plain silver chain on which to put a pendant set.

And here I have to digress, because it is important, but it’ll be short. Since the death of Father Mike, I have taken to wearing a particular pendant set as a necklace. This is what it looks like:

The little crucifix has been mine since….well, either since my First Communion or else since the day I was born – I can’t remember which; a set of grandparents got it for me. The prayer box is more recent; I got the prayer box because of Father Mike’s passing. (Yes, the prayer box can open. And, yes, there is something inside it.)

Well, the chain broke on Friday afternoon. I was changing clothes after work, and the chain caught against my fingers just so and popped apart. There wasn’t even a hope of soldering it back together. I put a paperclip through the pendants, so that I could keep carrying them around with me.

So Older Sister and I stopped into Claire’s in the hopes of finding a plain silver chain.

Didn’t find one. But I did find this picture, on the clearance rack. And it made me smile so much. So I bought it, and it’s now on the wall above my headboard:

(C)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
(Just a disclaimer - no copyright infringement is intended, at all. All songs, music, and images posted herein on this blog belong to its respective performers and creators. All songs and music posted herein was all legally obtained by the blog author, and all images (unless otherwise noted) were found via Google image searches. If anyone wants any song, music, or image removed from this site, please visit my “About” page and drop me an e-mail. Thank you.)